I have an Ultra 10 with 256 MB (2x128) of RAM that is working fine. I just added 512 MB (2x256) of RAM and now it won't boot. The proper amount of RAM is displayed during POST and it begins booting, but after a few seconds of the twirling \|/- it hangs and never continues booting.I have tried ...

I've been trying to install Solaris 10 on an Sun Ultra 5 with a 20Gb hard disk with little luck. The disk is the 20Gb Seagate that it came with. On the installation it appears to not be detecting any more than 8Gb of the disk.I've noticed this a common problem in earlier versions of Solaris ...

I am looking at getting a used system for personal use, I have been considering between a Ultra 60 and a Blade 100. Would a Ultra 60 with dual 450 be a significant increase over a blade with 1 cpu?

I recently bought a SunSPARCstaion 5 off eBay last year.Along with Solaris 7 for SPARC computers. I got a connector for it so i could use to with my monitor and a sun type 5c keybord and mouse for it. When I fired the machines up it seemed to be booting, but then it stops. At an error about not ...

Hello,Is there any command to erase the content of all nvram?If I want to erase several devalias I must do one by one.Thank you.

I just got a call from work and one of the Blade 1000's died. Monitor say's no signal, and they say the fans are not running and the power button led is not lit. Off hand it sounds like a power supply but I have not had one go out before in all the 30+ units I deal take care of. Just curious ...

HelloI have an Ultra 10 machine with an Einstein motherboard (bought this one so I could fit the 440 MHz cpu).I noticed a bad pin on the daughter board (system board) and tried to sort it but it broke.I was wondering if any one could point me to the pin out of the board? I have tried the ...

I have 2 problems:1. the /(root) disk requires an fsck to be run but I am unable to login as root in single-user mode because the root password is not accepted2. trying to boot from the cdrom to remove the root password has the following error:boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unixI have checked ...

I have a blade 2000, I want to put it in an enclosed computer cabinent, I want to know if it would run to hot being in the cabinet; also can we rack mount it

I am newbie to Sun. May I know how do Install and configure an external SCSI hard drive. I already had it connected physically and rebooted the whole box, but Solaris 10 didn't find it. What do I need to do.

Hello everyoneI have a Blade 1000 with an Elite-3D-m6 card.I connected a display using the 13w3-to-VGA adapter. This did not work because the Elite 3D generates a "csync" signal while the display needs a "vsync" signal. ("csync" can be used as "hsync" as ...

Hello All,I am running Sunbld 2000/Solaris 8 with default Network Interface configured already. Yesterday, i added the second Network Card (Sun fastenthernet card) to the system but there was the only problem happening with automatic regconition of MAC addresses on the system, only problem is ...

Hi allI have a PC keyboard plugged in via a Sun Keyboard/Mouse adapter does anyone know the shortcut for STOP A? so i can get to the OK prompt.cheers

hello i am georgei don't no anything about solaris 9 i am new user and i have problems... first : how i set my pc to the net (ip ... if config... ?) thanks...if i help the answer after write "ifconfig bge0 auto-dhcp start " is not propried interface.

excuse mehow to read cpu speed ?how to display cpu speed?how to claculator cpu speed?on banner displayer cpu speed ?

Hello.I have a Blade 1000 with a SunPCi II (Chimera) card. According to the SunPCi II manual such cards support Windows NT, 2000 and XP. The SunPCi software comes with special installation programs for these systems.But after trying to install Windows XP (Prof., Ger.), Windows 2000 (Workst., ...

Has anyone seen and have ideas about the following problem. We had a Blade 150 running Solaris 5.8. Once in a while when we would start the boot process by clicking the power button on the Blade, it would light, beep and so forth as normal but the video screen would never become active, meaning ...

Hello,I have rescued a forgotten Sun Fire 280R. The problem is when I try to boot the host because I can not see any prompt neither a vt420 terminal, windows hyperterminal, Linux minicom or Solaris tip. The host seems to boot ok and the connections property are ok (I think so...): 9600 8n1. I ...

I have this Sparcstation 10 which has worked fine until yesterday. When I turn it on it shows me the banner and then it prints "Testing memory" for a half second before it just reboots and the same thing happend again and again...I tried diag-switch? true and that showed that after ...

Hello.I am a sun newbie and I want to know how to change the SCSI default 32104567 to 01234567? Thanks.

I have an Enterprise 450 4X450MZ processors, and 4 gB of mem. The display is very slow, window moves produce a grid across the window while the move is taking place. The LCD display is a SONY sdm-n50. The display card shows as follows in the messages file:Oct 20 20:36:08 RTR-Home450 pcipsy: ...

Hican anybody tell me if it is possible/recommended to use a 250 Gig IDE-disk in a SUN Ultra5 Workstation?

Hello all..Last winter I purchased 4x Sun Ultra 2's with single 200Mhz CPU's in each ( CPU #501-4791), I have since removed the CPU's from 2 of the machines, and installed them on the other 2 Chassies (leaving me with 2x Ultra 2's with dual 200Mhz, 2x Ultra 2's with no CPU's). The two ...

Anyone have recommendations for 19-inch LCD's for a blade-1500?Thanks.

Hi.I am new to the Blade 100 concept.I have upgraded my Blade 100 with 1Gb RAM and Seagate 120GB 7k2rpm 8Mb cach HD.I want to upgrade with better graphics.What card is better then the onboard?I can se on the hardware handboook that there is a PGX32, PGX64, Expert3D etc.Are all of them better ...

I've come across a couple of hundred UltraSPARC 5 systems that I need to inventory. I know Sun made these with different processor speeds, I just don't know how to identify them.Instead of hooking up each machine and booting to find out the processor speed, are there any kind of markings or ...

I work for a company that has several Sunblade 100's laying around the data center that have been decomissioned and replaced by 1U rack mountable starfire servers. They wanted me to install Solaris 9 w/the latest recommended patches on one of them and setup SunONE directory server as a test ...

Hi people,It seems i'm having a great problem here.I was installing kernel patch 118558-16 while suddendly a kernel panic(the patch was not fully installed yet) automatically sent the server to sync and reboot.Now at boot i get a "Fast data acess MMU miss" just after the OS banner ...

I mistakenly switched off my Ultra 10 as it was starting the boot process. Now it won't boot, even respond to Stop-A, or anything else. Just a blank screen after the keyboard is acknowledged. No OpenBoot, anything.Any ideas?U10 w/ Solaris 10PeterIt is now running after being without power most ...

Hello allI would Like to upgrade my Ultra 60 from dual 360mHz to dual 450 mHz. What are the correct steps of doing so?ThanksAlexander

Hey all,I have an Ultra 5 workstation and a PC at home, and I wanted to control both computers from 1 set of mouse, keyboard and monitor. I carefully selected the switch (I used the Aten CS-62U, which is compatible with PC,Mac+Sun) and a PCI USB card with NEC chipset.However, I don't seem to ...

What is the cache block size in Sun Ultra Sparc IIIi processor? The data sheet states that there is a Jbus with 128b bandwidth. Is this the cache block size? is the b in 128b for bits or bytes?

Hi,I occupy myself of 12 sunblade 100.6 are in obp 4 and others are in obp 4.5.I succeeding in installing gentoo on 6 sunblade with obp 4 (silo 1.49 works with it). I use dd to duplicate.But with sunblade obp 4.5, silo doesn't work.I upgrade the obp with obp 4.17, silo doesn't work and ...

Dear All,I have a SunPCi III card running SunPCi 3.2.2 on an Ultra 60 running Solaris 9. The installation of the virtual desktop is fine but when I am asked to insert the Win-XP O/S disk and press return nothing happens.Solaris sees the disk and the contents is displayed in a Solaris Window but ...

I've recently acquired a german clone of a Sun Ultra 1E made by Tritec. It was an image processing workstation that was part of a Siemens CAT scanner, and I'm hoping to put it to a modest use. As far as I can tell, it is the same as a standard Sun 1E except that it runs at 300 MHz, which ...

I just got used Blade 100 and it when I got it prtdiag -v would give me this:System PROM revisions:-OBP 4.3.2 2001/08/29 15:43 Sun Blade 100POST 1.2.6 2000/08/30 21:20After upgrading PROM with the patch 119235-01 (I guess that's the latest one) now I have this:System PROM revisions:-OBP 4.17.1 ...

I have a stack of 3 dead Blade 100s dredged from some back room somewhere that for some reason people want installed in their desktops instead of a new PC running Linux or BSD which will cost 1/3 as much and run 3X faster... :-(Two of them don't boot and one boots but we don't know the root ...

I just got a new LCD KVM switch just will not support the default Screen Resolution in Openboot(1152x900?)I entered this commandok setenv output-device screen:r1024x768x60output-device = screen:r1024x768x60ok reset-allBut the setting just doesn't seem to register as the system stil boots up ...

I have on many sites found the information that the SUN Blade 100 equiped with a 500MHz IIe can be upgraded with a 650MHz IIi processor.I know the moterboard in the Blade 100 can be strapped for 650MHz, and I know that the IIe & IIi is pin and package comaptible.I understand that this is ...

HI I am new to unix.I need to connect Ultra 10 with Disk array D1000. I want to install x6541 375-0006 (VHDCI 68 pin) Dual Diff SCSI card on ultra 10.I can't find any DOC to configure this card. Need help please.........Thanks

Hello, my question:is it possible to plug this processorUltra SPARC IIi+ 650 MhzD12572260201PG1.30 GS1 USASME 1532C PGA9801023-650 BBOon ultra 5 400 Mhz 2 MB cache? Regards, Stefano

My system (Ultra10-Solaris9) started exhibiting some stange behavior...quite suddenly!I get the following errors at bootup:nohup: getexecname() failed.../usr/lib/libX.a/bin/rps: Cannot find/execute "rps" in ISA subdirectories...When logged in, if I try to open the Desktop Controls ...

Is the creator graphic card compatible with ultra 5?Stefano

help,I am trying to setup A.M.P.S. ... I have managed to configure this setup on a windows 2003 server (with headaches) but got it working. (eventually) ... i have joined this list in the hope that someone out there will be able to help.I am a Windows engineer with little unix exspereince ...

I got a third-party memory compatible with SUN part X-7704A:2x1GB DDR PC2700, 333, CL2.5, ECC, REG. After installation on a Sun Blade 1500, the machine won't boot. I don't get any beep,OK Prompt neither monitor signal. The machine just gets toan idle state with the fans running at full speed, ...

Hi all,Wold you please tell me what is the latest version of OBP & POST for Sun Ultra60 and Sun Blade 1000?(Which patch number for the latest one for those 2 Suns)Thanks & regards,Irwan Lesmana

Triying to install solaris 10 on ultra 5:Error: Could not create solaris disk label (VTOC).... System installation failed.disk: seagate barracuda ata II 20 GBcan I fix it via software or it will be a hardware problem?Stefano

System: Ultra 60 - (2x 360MHz, 256 RAM)The system has (2) 18GB drives, a Seagate Barracuda and a Toshiba (which turns out in fact to be a rebranded Barracuda). After launching the Solaris 10 installer, I noticed it only sees 2 9GB drives. I am completely new to SPARC architecture. My initial ...

How can I track a user's mouse or keyboard activity? I am looking for a way to auto-logoff a user from a specific application if they have not touched their workstation in a specified amount of time. Any clues that can be passed my way will be appreciated =)

Hi,I bought a SunBlade100 off eBay and the owner told me he forgot root password.I don't have a sun usb keyboard with a stop button. just a regular keyboard (dell)does anyone know the default break sequence for this machine from a regular keyboard to get to ok prompt?please help and thanks ...